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Old Thu Dec 31, 2009, 08:23pm
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Originally Posted by Freddy View Post
Fan: "Three Seconds!!!"
Translation: "The team for which I am biased is behind and I'm vocalizing my frustration at you for their lack of skill and athleticism. I can't yell at the other team because they're better than the one I'm rooting for."
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Fan: "Three Seconds!!!"
Translation: "My team is ahead but I'm so insecure that I can't bear to just sit here and watch them gradually throw the game away so I'm blaming you--it sure can't be my son's team's fault so it must be yours."
Root Reason:
The basis for the word [B]fan[B] is and will always be the term fanatic. And, nowadays anyway, to be one thusly fanatical carries with it the prerequisite of bias and favoritism. We officials just happen to be the easiest ones onto whom to lay the misplaced blame. It's all part of living in a society that's invested the better part of four or five decades in the spirit of antiauthoritarianism.
At least that's my take on it. I understand it, therefore I've learned to put up with it by ignoring it.
IMO , its the " its all about me " syndrome most of the time.
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